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Originally Posted by fw102807
Amen to that Tal, best response ever. There are always many sides to each issue and many facts to support each side. |
I am quite familiar with violence and it affects. A police officer came to talk to us Earl Wooster High School students to "help" us deal with the 2-24-1976 murder of Michelle Mitchell near the University of Nevada, Reno campus but instead of empathizing with us he started talking about a 1963 extremely gory killing by a Earl Wooster HS student, Thomas Lee Bean, at that time of a female Olympic skier. Context is extremely important as is trying to get know the people involved in these kind of tragedies.
I came across a former cell mate of Bean -- the 1963 murderer-- who actually said that this is a very nice guy now. Or he was when he was this guy's cellmate. I visit with a lot of people via Facebook who live or lived in Reno, Nevada.
What this guy did to the skier, Sonja McCaskie, is still horrific even by 2019 standards. Bean looks evil to me and not so much mentally ill.